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Land Ordiance of 1785
Land had to be reserved for schools to be built -
Northwest Ordinance
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota used the Northwest Ordinance which is a document encouraging the creation of schools. -
Second Morrill Act
This act gave responsibility to the the office education, and they had to give support to colleges and universities for land-grants. Schools would be segregated by color. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
changed the role of federal government in K-12 education -
Education Amendment of 1972
If a school has federal aid they are not allowed to discriminate based on sex -
Department of Education
Congress decided that the Department of Education will be a cabinet level agency. -
No Child Left Behind
President Bush signed this law, it wanted better test scores by 2014 and to measure students it used standardized testing . -
Every Student Succeeds Act
Returns some power to states over education
